Be fruitful

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” - Genesis 1:26-28

 

God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and to multiply and to fill the earth.

 

In other words God wanted the world to be full of His people. He did not create the world to be an empty place or a place only to be enjoyed by a few select people. He created a wonderful world and He wanted it to be enjoyed. Not only that, believe it or not, God wanted people to fellowship with.

 

So He told Adam and Eve to go out an start reproducing and filling the earth through bearing children. Thus began the blessing of children and families.

 

But if all we do is have kids and don’t try to produce fruit in their lives all we are doing is carrying on biological functions. As we fill the earth with children we Christians must always strive to produce spiritual fruit in their lives. John wrote that he had no greater joy that to see his children walking in the truth.

 

So, we pray and we teach and we lead and we try to guide them into the truth and hope and pray that they will bear fruit in their lives and fill the earth with truth.